1987-12-04 – Teaser’s – Hamilton, ON
Harvey Dog (vocals) Paul Settle (trumpet) Bill Day (guitar) John Kinsella (bass) Bruce Black (drums)
Lyrics
You take what they give you and you’ll wind up with nothing. A feeling of hate hidden underneath warm skin. A desire for isolation, left alone with my books. No pressure from outside sources. No media to tell me the way I should think. No empty bank accounts to worry me.
I’m not a missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle of life. I do not fit in. I do not want to fit in. I want to be left alone and spit at the expectations set out for me when I was still in my mother’s womb.
Do this, do that, don’t smoke, don’t rat, be a friend, join the crowd. Strength in unity. Bullshit!
I want to be left alone with my dreams. My dreams pounding in my brain. Warnings of the future, deviations from the past, but always empty right at the very moment when I need it the most. An empty void leaving me nowhere.
I kissed society in a dream last night. Society’s ass had pimples. It was disgusting. My bank account soared. I was respectable. I was a safe human being.
I WAS A FUCKING BORE!
Video
I Kissed Society – Live 1987-12-04 – Teasers – Hamilton, ON